Chaïm Soutine
Against the Current
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Beschreibung
● Expressive and highly emotive paintings
● Uprooting, vulnerability and a sense of a lack of belonging
● Lasting influence on the art after 1945
Clenched, raw and pressingly urgent: Chaïm Soutine’s vivid paintings are testimonies to a sense of human vulnerability and an existence on the margins of society. Intensely colored, his meaty impasto portraits are thrown onto the canvas with broad brushstrokes, while his agitated, frenetic landscapes and paintings of slaughtered animals are expressions of an intense hunger for life and, at the same time, a deep alienation in an unsteady world that offers no support. Despite the recognition his work received, Soutine remained an outsider throughout his life, a stranger to the social manners of his adopted home in France. This catalogue focuses on the early masterpieces and series he created between 1919 and 1925: Under the overarching theme of emigration and uprooting, the contributions reveal the traces of Soutine’s Jewish origins in his work, illuminating the significance of his motifs from the fringes of society as well as of blood and animal carcasses as metaphors; and show the influences of Soutine’s art up to the present day.
Autor*in
Susanne Gaensheimer
Themen in »Chaïm Soutine«
Düsseldorf Malerei Porträts Emigration Klassische Moderne Monografie Jüdische Künstler Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Kunstmuseum Bern Expressive Malerei geschlachtete Tiere Malerei Avantgarde Avantgarde Jüdischer Maler